Month to date Actual vs Forecast

Hi Experts,
we have Reporting Requirement like
we have monthly sales forecast product vise and sales actuals daywise, now we need to design the Report which shows Actual vs forecast Month to date.
to design a report for actuals month to date we can get straightfarword, when comming to forecast we have a monthly target so when we showing the actual vs forecast month to date, i need to derive the forecast value as of date(1st of month to current date) from monthly forecast.
for example my month forecast is 180EA,
lets assume we are in 10th day of the month
                           10th MAy
Actual                 50 EA              -
(month to date - 1st May to 10th May)
Forecast             60 -
calculation month target * 10/30
how can we achive this Requirement.
Thanks & Regards
Chandra

Hi Experts
Thanks for for quick response,
Here i need to show the Report month to date like if we are 10th may(say month target is 270 EA )
                 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th 10th
Actual       10   18    25   30    45 55   65   70   80   85
Forecast   9     18    27 36    45   54   63   72   81   90
Here actual, fore cast values needs to aggregate with previous dates value.
like   3rd may actual = 1st may actual + 2nd may actual + 3rd may actual
      3rd may Forecast = 1st may Forecast + 2nd may Forecast+ 3rd may Forecast
4th may actual = 1st may actual + 2nd may actual + 3rd may actual + 4th may actual
4th may Forecast = 1st may Forecast + 2nd may Forecast+ 3rd may Forecast + 4th may Forecast
can any one suggets me how can we achive this requirement.
Thanks & Regards
Chandra

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Hi Irwin,
I was not around for a few days, hence, delay in writing this to you.
I am going to give to some kind of a pseudo code here. You might need to take help from an ABAPer to close the open ends here (Please excuse me here incase you yourself have an expertise in ABAP, I am just assuming otherwise).
Going back to my earlier response to your question, I am considering two variables:
 ZC_ACTV: For Actuals
 ZC_FORV: For forecasts
You would need to create them as Customer-Exit kind of variables. They should be able to hold dates.
I am assuming that you already have a User Entry variable for entering month on the selection screen. I'll call it ZP_MON (Please substitute the actual name).
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* Some data declaration in the beginning, if already not there.
 DATA: l_s_range TYPE rsr_s_rangesid.
 DATA: loc_var_range LIKE rrrangeexit.
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 WHEN 'ZC_ACTV'. " Variable name
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 v_mon(6) TYPE n , "This is assumed to be in format YYYYMM
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 CLEAR l_s_range.
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 v_year = v_mon+0(4).
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 l_s_range-low = v_fday .
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 v_mon(6) TYPE n , "This is assumed to be in format YYYYMM
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 v_fday LIKE sy-datum ,
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 CLEAR l_s_range.
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 v_year = v_mon+0(4).
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 CONCATENATE v_mon '01' INTO v_fday. " This will create last day of the entered month
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 l_s_range-sign = 'I' .
 l_s_range-opt = 'EQ' .
 l_s_range-high = v_lday .
 APPEND l_s_range TO e_t_range.
 EXIT.
 ENDLOOP.
 ENDIF.
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This is my case. Let's say I have the following figures for my actuals:
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February 2007 Actual = $120,000.
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